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Raymond Chandler (Writer)

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
— Raymond Chandler love
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
— Raymond Chandler smile
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
— Raymond Chandler writing
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
— Raymond Chandler intelligence
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
— Raymond Chandler good
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
— Raymond Chandler
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
— Raymond Chandler work
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
— Raymond Chandler justice
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
— Raymond Chandler self
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
— Raymond Chandler man
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
— Raymond Chandler food
I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
— Raymond Chandler art
When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.
— Raymond Chandler will
It is not a fragrant world.
— Raymond Chandler world
I certainly admire people who do things.
— Raymond Chandler people
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
— Raymond Chandler mind
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
— Raymond Chandler poetry
The more you reason the less you create.
— Raymond Chandler reason
The streets were dark with something more than night.
— Raymond Chandler dark
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
— Raymond Chandler art
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
— Raymond Chandler writing
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
— Raymond Chandler writing
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
— Raymond Chandler writing
I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
— Raymond Chandler day
A really good detective never gets married.
— Raymond Chandler good
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girls clothes off.
— Raymond Chandler love

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